A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

It's not enough to be busy.

Henry David Thoreau

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Busy Enough

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

Francois Truffaut

I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.

Scatman Crothers

I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming.

Fred Armisen

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

Why had I been so afraid? I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta...I had had all my time, all my chances. I could never do it again, never make it right. I had not loved enough...I had not passed up all my chances to give love or receive it, and I had the future, at least, to try to do better.

Lorene Cary

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

John Ortberg

We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

Billy Graham

The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you’re going to find is a man who didn’t care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.

Greg Behrendt

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

William Goldman

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

Marie Windsor

If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and designing the systems to keep your team, not you, busy, busy, busy.

Michael Gerber

I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do.

Tom Scholz

I think that timing is everything. At first, it was too soon. And then, the time was right, but I was busy with other things, and the cast was busy with other things. By the time we sat down to work on the movie, enough time had passed that suddenly a different story emerged.